<p>In your opinion, is pre-med more difficult than pre-business. What about med school vs. b school? </p>
<p>Right now I'm pre-med, but I have a feeling once I get to orgo and physics, I'm gonna fail out. So, business would be my second choice if I did badly. Could I switch into pre-business my second or even third year?</p>
<p>I think pre-med is tougher than pre-business. I would even say pre-med with a science major is tougher than being at the b school. But you have to remember that people have their strengths and weaknesses. One student's difficulty can be easiness for another. And plus, you have to do what you like.</p>
<p>By pre-business, do you mean pre-MBA or pre-BBA? You can apply to the b school after your freshman year. The 2-year program is no longer available. You can always decide to get your MBA, so you don't have to change your undergraduate curriculum for that.</p>
<p>If you really care about going into medicine, pick it. B/C you will do fine if you really want to. When you get to med school, you will really have to love it or you will be miserable.</p>
<p>why do people think business is so easy?
..cause it's really not easy.</p>
<p>Since business is such a broad major, people tend to think of business students as lacking in direction and simply trying to fill credits to graduate.</p>
<p>However, this is not always the case:
1. Especially at a top UG business college (Stern, Ross, Wharton, UChicago, Stanford, etc.)
2. Certain concentrations (foreign affairs, econ., etc.)
3. The overall academic quality of the school</p>
<p>Business is one of those majors in which the name on your certificate largely impacts where you go after graduation. The more prestigous the school, the harder the business students are going to work. Majoring in economics at UState, is going to be a lot different than Wharton or other top 10 school.</p>
<p>I never said business was easy. </p>
<p>I said if I couldn't handle medicine, then I would switch to business NOT because it is easy but, rather because it is my other passion.</p>
<p>Depends on what you're good at ... you can't really get an opinion that'll work for you from other people... For example, some people are awesome at math, and so if you were asking "is math harder than english" the people who like math would be like "oh english is horrible, go with math" and then there's people on the other side of the spectrum.... Do a little bit of research into what classes are required in each program, then see if they sound like something you'd like. If science is your thing, go with medicine. If econ is your passion, go with business... buuuut... if you REALLY want to be a doctor and are willing to go through classes that might be harder for you than others, go for it. Do whatever you like more.</p>
<p>I think it's generally acknowledged that pre-med is a lot more competetive. As Dilksy and others have mentioned on this board, if you're good at math or in the honors program, a weeder class like Econ 101 isn't too bad. Orgo, meanwhile, is pretty much terrible for everyone.</p>
<p>Maybe I'm just biased because business is my passion and I'm therefore better at it, but I feel like you could take any random kid from MSU and put him in Michigan's Econ 101 and he'd pass. I don't feel the same about that kid in organic chemistry.</p>
<p>chicago doesn't have an undergrad business school.</p>
<p>I think that in general, the harder sciences tend to require more intelligence (making classes more difficult) as well as attract more intelligent students (increases competition in things like orgo and med school acceptance). Going pre-business is definitely easier than pre-med.</p>
<p>If you're worried about not being able to get through physics and orgo, I'm pretty sure it won't get much easier beyond that. Not that you shouldn't try if it's what you really want to do, but if you don't have a passion and a drive to succeed, it probably won't be worth the frustration of trying.</p>
<p>It's also worth noting that there really is no such thing as "pre-business". Ideally, you'd take classes/choose a major that would prepare you for business like economics, but I'm pretty sure you can just do whatever you want for undergrad before you get a master's in business.</p>
<p>dilksy, that's good advice, thanks.</p>
<p>Although there is technically no such thing as "pre-business," you must have taken Math 115 or higher, Econ 101 or its equivalent, and English before the end of your freshman year in order to apply for admission to Ross for your sophomore year. If you are pursuing pre-med as a freshman, you must have these credits under your belt before you finish your freshman year. So, if you want to keep your options open, you may need to carefully plan out your schedule.</p>